City of El Paso Public Art

This year we’ve been lucky. There’ve been a host of new public art installations put up across the city. If you’re not familiar with downtown El Paso’s layout, there is a set of railroad tracks that run underground parallel to the I-10 freeway. Over several points there are bridges, that for the most part, you would forget about as you pass over.In the City’s on going effort to revitalize downtown, they have replaced the chain-link with new public art works. Once forgotten dead space is now not just functional fencing but engaging art. Along Campbell street is a cool 3D piece by Art Garcia:

Kansas has another installation that evokes the Franklin mountains by Tom Johnson, Tom Orr and Frances Bagley: